The Vicissitudes of Memory and Early Buddhist Oral Transmission
With the present paper, I attempt to develop a new perspective on the dynamics behind oral transmission in early Buddhism, in order to account for its two chief aspects of variation and similarity. For that purpose, I examine the early Buddhist oral tradition against its Vedic background and then tu...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Simon Fraser University, David See Chai Lam Centre for International Communication
2009
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Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 5, Pages: 5-19 |
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Summary: | With the present paper, I attempt to develop a new perspective on the dynamics behind oral transmission in early Buddhism, in order to account for its two chief aspects of variation and similarity. For that purpose, I examine the early Buddhist oral tradition against its Vedic background and then turn to the findings of modern psychological research on the function and short-comings of memory, in order to apply these findings to the case of early Buddhism., |
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ISSN: | 1710-825X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies
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